Issue - meetings

To receive and consider the report of the Deputy Chief Executive.

The performance of the business plans was deemed to be good with 181 projects across all of the directorates. The majority were green and were in the first few months of delivery following the formal agreement n June. The projects that had not started were due to begin in the next or following quarter. The projects that were on hold required a decision as to wether the project moved forward or if time scales needed to be adhusted.

Updates were provided quarterly which determined the status of the project as Red, Amber, or Green.

A number of the red project were discussed that related to Commercial and property, some was due to capacity issues, ICT and customer services.

Not every project had involvement with the cabinet members, as projects varied in size and scale, some were small, discrete and administrative, however the large corporate strategy projects would go through quarterly monitoring and the cabinet members.

Members raised the concern that there were some projects that were on hold were serious such as flood defense work for the river Chor in Astley Park, animal welfare, health and safety, food safety and electrical safety.

Members enquired if the café at Primrose Gardens would be open to the public as well as residents, information to be relayed to Members following the meeting about the café, and in relation to the pilot project for Occupational Therapy, and the flood defences.